UN's first Day of the Girl: the many faces of child marriage

Bakht, aged 40, sold her two eldest daughters, aged 10 and 14, into marriage to care for her her family after they fled conflict in Pakistan's northwest in May 2009. When Bakht's husband died shortly afterward, she became the sole carer for her seven children - with no inheritance, no house and no access to the land owned by her husband’s family. "I regret what I did but I had no other choice at that time... it was out of sheer desperation and poverty. My husband always wanted to give them an education," says Bakht. "I miss them both.”Picture: Muhammad Ali, World Vision